Dolph Chianchiano, J.D., is senior vice president for health policy and research at the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) in New York City.

In that role he is the NKF's senior advisor on all transplant-related programs, activities and initiatives, and provided leadership to the NKF in its input to the Health Resources and Services Administration on the recent Organ Donation and Recovery Improvement Act. He is the NKF's principal liaison to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases and other government agencies, and he serves as the NKF's liaison to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Transplantation. He also oversees the NKF's joint research program with the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

Ciainchiano holds a doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville as well as a master's degree in public administration from New York University and an undergraduate degree in foreign service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.